Recent answers to Foxit PhantomPDF for Mozilla Plugin Can't Updatehttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/9450632012-12-26T08:12:32-08:00Thank you ... that worked .. I don't know if PDF was or was not an option when I looked previously2012-12-26T08:12:32-08:00WindsurferLAhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/945063#answer-391937<p>Thank you ... that worked .. I don't know if PDF was or was not an option when I looked previously, but it was there this time, and by selecting Adobe to handle it, the files now open smoothly.
</p>In Options &gt; Applications, look for Portable Document Format (PDF) and next to that should be pul2012-12-23T09:37:35-08:00finitarryhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/945063#answer-391393<p>In Options &amp;gt; Applications, look for Portable Document Format (PDF) and next to that should be pull-down menu. If you have a plugin that can handle it, there will be an item "Use [whatever] Plug-in", but there should also be an item that says "Use [whatever]". That last item is an application, not a plugin.
</p>You suggest going to Options|Applications and specifying Foxit as a "helper application." I find no2012-12-22T22:06:22-08:00WindsurferLAhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/945063#answer-391287<p>You suggest going to Options|Applications and specifying Foxit as a "helper application." I find no such option. On the left is listed the various applications. On the right, in pull down menu, as the options for opening files delineated on the left. There is a "helper" at ToolsDownLoad Helper, but I could not find anything to specify which application was to be used to open .pdf file in micro-soft window.
</p>You could set Firefox to use Foxit as a helper application, rather than the plugin. Do that from Op2012-12-22T12:55:04-08:00finitarryhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/945063#answer-391202<p>You could set Firefox to use Foxit as a helper application, rather than the plugin. Do that from Options &amp;gt; Applications.
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